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Subj: Re: Perhaps we ought to distrust museums
Date: 12/26/2000 1:06:23 PM Central Standard Time
From: baseekins@netscape.net
To: Nmherman@aol.com
CC: Genius2000Conference2000@egroups.com
I'm wishing to respond mostly just to the subject heading of the post: Of
course we ought to distrust museums. Every intelligent, self-respecting
producer of artistic/intellectual/imaginative material ought to look upon
museums with utter contempt. That's not to say nobody should visit them and
enjoy looking at the art work. I visit my local museum often on Friday
evenings when they have free night and magnanimously open the doors to all
the local riff-raff.
But essentially, museums exist for the purpose of domesticating the
revolutionary energy of artistic/intellectual/imaginative production. Museums
exist to legitimize certain artistic/intellectual/imaginative productions,
which has the (I believe very much intended) effect of marginalizing and
de-valuing artistic/intellectual/imaginative production by virtually
everybody else in society. Museums, along with Universities, are crucial to
establishing a bogus hierarchy of "legitimate" artists, poets, critics,
etcetera, and the faceless hordes beneath them who don't quite make the cut.
A few "special" people get to produce artistic/intellectual/imaginative
material and everybody else can just learn to be content with a life of wage
slavery. If we're still interested in what the special people produce, we can
watch a television show about it.
Forget for a minute that it's absurd to talk about any sort of firm judgement
in regards to artistic quality. "Artistic quality" is a reactionary term,
used by museum and university hacks to justify the profoundly undemocratic
allocation of funding and support to artists, writers and intellectuals. And
anybody who has seen these institutions operate in person knows that the
criteria for getting into the special person's club has less to do with
actual artistic/intellectual/imaginative production and a lot more to do with
where you went to school, who your professors were (and whether or not you
were the sort of student who stroked their egos), dumb luck and maybe most
important of all, how thoroughly you've internalized the materialistic and
nihilistic ideology of late 20th century, early 21st century, celebrity
consciousness.
Museums are faux public spheres, in which actual access is very carefully
regulated by a whole matrix of intentional and unintentional ideological
checks and balances. Even the most revolutionary art work is no match for the
domesiticating influence of the museums. Just as Universities rip the teeth
right out of Stevens or Joyce (not to mention Shakespeare, Keats or
Dickinson) by making them central to the canon, any really interesting work
that ends up in a museum is subjected to a radical re-contexualization in
which a lot of its genuine power is undermined.
And probably the most disgusting thing about museums is the roll they play
within the framework of PHILANTHROPY INC. Museums exist above all else
because they provide a lot of opportunities for rich fucking dirtbags to
congratulate themselves. In a world where 1.3 billion people don't even have
safe drinking water, in a country where millions of people don't have
adequate nutrition or shelter, rich fucking dirtbags routinely gather in
museums, each dressed in fancy clothing that cost enough to feed a family
thrown off from the AFDC rolls by the "liberal" demoncrats for a month or
more, and then they congratulate themselves for how generous they are, for
how ethically and aesthetically advanced they are. This should be
aesthetically and intellectually untenable to anybody who truly considers him
or herself to be an artist.
Nmherman@aol.com wrote:
>
> Subj: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: [Nettime-bold] SFMOMA \ David Ross is a
> Disreputable Person Running a Disreputable Institution
> Date: 12/25/2000 9:38:00 PM Central Standard Time
> From: integer@www.god-emil.dk
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> To: Genius2000Conference2000@egroups.com, nettime-l@BBS.THING.NET,
> list@rhizome.org
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>
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>
> re:
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> >David Ross is a Disreputable Person Running a Disreputable Institution
> >Ross, you're a bum!
>
>
> If one may, NN has been made aware by SFMOMA `artists` that
> they aren't provided with the software etc they desire
> e.g. NATO.0+55 and thus are forced to travel begging.
>
> NN finds this ultra amussant + has concluded SFMOMA
> may in fact be just another destitute plantation style
> provincial `organization`.
>
> Friendly, NN
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> >Subj: RE: RHIZOME_RAW: IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary
> >diskdrives
> >Date: 12/23/2000 4:53:36 PM Central Standard Time
> >From: daross51@pacbell.net (David A. Ross) [Director of SFMOMA]
> >To: Nmherman@aol.com
> >
> >Dear Max Herman:
> >
> >Holiday greetings to you as well, and may all your wishes for fame and
power
> >come true.
> >
> >David
> >
> >++
> >
> >I take it you won't respond to the open letter regarding your theory of
> >"internal revolution" to be brought by the internet. Remember the
audience
> >during your speech with Weibel, back in '99, and how they said "the
internet
> >is so new and all your comments and ideas about are so stale and cliche"?
I
> >do. It's on the tape you made too, I'll request access to it one day.
> >Perhaps you better lose it somehow.
> >
> >An open question: Do you trust David Ross to do what's right? I don't.
> >I've met him and seen many of his posts, and I say he's just another
> >corporate weasel who works for the rich.
> >
> >For more background on this dispute, check
> >www.egroups.com/group/Genius2000Conference2000 and
> >http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/Archive2000.html (SFMOMA82700).
> >
> >Ross, you're a bum!
> >
> >Max Herman
> >The Genius 2000 Network
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]On Behalf Of
> >Nmherman@aol.com
> >Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 12:56 PM
> >To: media@web.net; un-media@egroups.com; cyberculture@zacha.org;
> >MediaReality-L@mailserv.fao.org; list@rhizome.org; syndicate@aec.at;
> >nettime-l@BBS.THING.NET; mediamentor@egroups.com;
> >Genius2000Conference2000@egroups.com
> >Cc: VoteGenius2000@egroups.com
> >Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary
> >diskdrives
> >
> >++
> >
> >The new agenda for digital art at the SFMOMA is paid for by Intel. Why
> >don't
> >we all get out there and start getting some. Let's get some. Let's get
> >some. David Ross, fuck you. Hard. It's a sin not to act. Delenda est
> >Sfmomo. Many humans die grasping for the things we are allowing to be
> >murdered.
> >
> >Come on fuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >Max Herman
> >The Genius 2000 Network
> >http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?1866
> >Now is the time
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